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1901 James Watt
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Description
Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, Uncommon
The uncommon first edition of this work, signed by the author to the front free endpaper, with 'John Colwell Esq with the author's kind regards', dated 1907.
Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and eight further plates. Collated, complete.
A biography of Scottish inventor, engineer and chemist James Watt, known for creating the Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution.
This work was printed for private circulation.
Advertisement leaf to the rear.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards bright, with light fading to back strip, and bumps to back strip head and tail. Inscribed to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.
Very Good Indeed
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